(Chapter 10) Philadelphia- Were delegates met for the Constitutional Convention met. (Chapter 8-9) Philadelphia-It was were The First Continental Congress met in 1774.Since it was the first meeting of it`s kind on the North American Continent , it was later called the first Contenintal Congress.While they were there they wrote a petition to the king to remind him of the rights of the british citizens.The petition said that the colonists had the right to life and liberty.It also said that they had the right to assembly or gather together and the right to a trial. A big city in southeastern Pennsylvania, It was named by William Penn. Home of the Liberty Bell.The Decloration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia.